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Noah and Tanika spend a day aboard the tugboat Hercules learning about the boats and animals in the harbor
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Michael O'Hearn has been a contributor to many magazines, including Maine Costal News, New England Coastal News, and The Homesteader. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts. Mela Lyman is an artist and teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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O'Hearn, a nautical photo-journalist and writer, makes his children's book debut with this lively look at the goings-on in a bustling port. Readers accompany two children, Tanika and Noah, aboard the tug Hercules. The amiable captain, Lucy, shows the kids a ferry carrying people and cars; a dredger sucking up mud; tugs pulling a barge and guiding a cruise ship; and a crane unloading a freighter's cargo. Lucy describes each process as well as the Hercules's duties: towing a boom around a newly sunken ship to contain any leaking oil and carrying mail to an anchored tanker waiting for a place to dock. Lucy also explains the function of buoys and lighthouses, points out various marine species (a seal, porpoises, jellyfish, cormorants) and finally steers her craft to join a parade of tugboats. Never mind the questionable likelihood of sighting all this activity in one harbor on a single day-with his crisp prose and concise descriptions, O'Hearn imparts a good deal of information during this short cruise. And although her images of people are not as convincing as those depicting the harbor's hubbub, Lyman's grainy, boldly hued paintings convey the maritime excitement. All ages.
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- PublisherCharlesbridge Pub Inc
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0881068896
- ISBN 13 9780881068894
- BindingLibrary Binding
- LanguageEnglish
- IllustratorLyman Mela
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Hercules the Harbor Tug
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Charlesbridge Publishing, Incorporated, 1994
ISBN 10: 0881068896
ISBN 13: 9780881068894
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Seller: Thomas F. Pesce', Anaheim, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Lyman, Mela (illustrator). Book Condition: Near Fine. Gloss covers with color illustrated tug boats and big red letters. Spine display quality with bright white letters on red spine. Clean, bright, white end-sheets and colorful pages are tightly bound. No marks, now writing. A very, nice reading copy. Synopsis: Noah and Tanika spend a day aboard the tugboat Hercules learning about the boats and animals in the harbor. (332-P). Seller Inventory # 4001548
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HERCULES THE HARBOR TUG
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Lyman, Mela (illustrator). 1995 O'Hearn, Michael HERCULES THE HARBOR TUG Charlesbridge, c1995 unpaginated illustrated in color Mela Lyman Rectangular 8vo Corner tips lightly bumped, near fine hardcover, interior clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 30726
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Hercules the harbor tug
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ISBN 10: 0881068896
ISBN 13: 9780881068894
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Hard cover. Lyman, Mela (illustrator). 1 v. (unpaged): col. ill.; 22 x 28 cm. Includes Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. Fine. No dust jacket. nice clean 'gift quality' copy. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0005619
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